1. Charles John Klosterman is an American author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture.
13 Facts About Chuck Klosterman
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Chuck Klosterman has been a columnist for Esquire and ESPN.
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Chuck Klosterman was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor award for music criticism in 2002.
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Chuck Klosterman was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, the youngest of seven children of Florence and William Chuck Klosterman.
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Chuck Klosterman grew up on a farm in nearby Wyndmere, North Dakota, and was raised Roman Catholic.
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Chuck Klosterman graduated from Wyndmere High School in 1990, and then from the University of North Dakota in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism with a minor in English literature.
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From 2002 to 2006, Chuck Klosterman was a senior writer and columnist for Spin.
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Chuck Klosterman has written for GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
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In 2008, Chuck Klosterman spent the summer as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the Leipzig University's Institute for American Studies in Germany.
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Chuck Klosterman was an original member of Grantland, a now-defunct sports and pop culture web site owned by ESPN and founded by Bill Simmons.
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Chuck Klosterman appeared as an animated version of himself in several episodes of the Adult Swim web feature Carl's Stone Cold Lock of the Century of the Week, to discuss the week's football games and to sometimes try to promote his latest book.
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In 2021, Chuck Klosterman appeared on the podcast Storybound, backed by an original Storybound remix with Portico Quartet.
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Chuck Klosterman is the author of 12 books and two sets of cards.